Engraved historiated t.p

First edition

Signatures: )( A-ZAa-XxYy (last blank) AA-GGaa-eeffAAA-LLLMMMaaa-ddd (last blank)

Includes a Latin version (Salamanca, 1589) of Acosta's Historia natural y moral de las Indias, first published in Spanish in Seville in 1590. The narrative of Sebalt de Weert's voyage was written by B.Jansz and was first published in Amsterdam. The editor and publisher, Zacharias Heyns, has sometimes been credited with the work. It was translated into German and then into Latin by the De Brys. An account of Olivier van Noort's voyage was published in 1602 by Cornelis Claesz., later translated into German from which the De Brys printed a Latin version

Each successive section following the first has a printed t.p. with the imprint: Francofvrti : Excvdebat Matthaeus Beckervs, M.DCII. De Bry's widow and sons, Johann Theodor and Johann Israel are included

Separate title page, sig. AA1r: Relatio historica, siue, Vera, et genuina consignatio ac descriptio illius nauigationis ... duo capitanei Sebalt de Weert & Balthasar de Cordes ...omnia per Mr. Bernardvm Jansz Cirurgni ... (with engraving of 5 ships)

Separate title page, sig. aa1r: Idaea vera et geniuna, praecipuarum historiarum omnium ... gentis Indicae ... icones aliquammultae, artificiossimè in aes incisa ..

Separate title page, sig. AAA1r: Additamentum nonae partis Americae, hoc est, Vera et accurata descriptio longinquae, diuturnae ac periculosissimae navigationis, quam Olevier à Noort ... confecit ... & figuris seu iconibus ... (with engraved port. of Noort)

Separate title page, sig. aaa1r: Vera et genuina sed brevis tamen et compendiaria ... narratio figuris seu schematibus artificossimis aeneis expressa ..

Errors in pagination: 268 numbered 286; (2nd series:) 46 as 48, 55 as 56

Map, Fretum Magellannicum, same as that in the German ed., 1601. Plates in second series are also numbered and coordinated with the German text

Church, E. D. Discovery

Sabin

Brunet

JCB Lib. cat, pre-1675

Collection Dutuit

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